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单词 absentee landlord
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absentee landlord
1. That is an absentee; designating a person who is absent from his or her country, home, property, or place of employment, either habitually or on a particular occasion. Frequently in absentee landlord, absentee voter.
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1772 London Mag. Apr. 199/1 Whether a tax upon all non-resident and absentee clergymen would not be..reasonable and expedient?
1822 J. Wiggins (title) A letter to the absentee landlords of the South of Ireland.
1859 Brit. Colonist (Victoria) 22 Jan. 1/1 It is not generally known that a law exists in this colony by which an absentee voter can vote by proxy.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 454 The Norwegians preferred a foreign and absentee king.
1932 D. B. O'Connor Belle of Barrine 4 The harvests of our heritage are squandered by absentee bosses..in the casinos of Europe.
1957 N.Z. Offic. Year-bk. 1957 29 These latter conditions replace the former classes of absentee, postal, and declaration voters.
1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 12/2 Edward Long, historian, statistician and so-called absentee sinecurist and negrophobe.
1997 Express 19 Feb. 74/1 The Scots who were expelled from their land and livelihood by absentee English landlords.
extracted from absenteen.adj.
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